Jim,
thanks for the links. I like the Wiki link. The price is right and the source looks like it can be modified to do just what I need. I had not thought to look on news2news where they got the base code for it.
John.

>The following may be of interest too:
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>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VideoCaptureApi~VFP
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>good luck
>
>>I have a customer that wants to take a picture each time the cash drawer is opened and store the picture with the date, time, etc. Anyone have any suggestions on cameras, software, etc. and how this could be done from VFP?
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>>Once I have the image file on disk I can take it from there but I'm a bit fuzzy on how to get that done. I'm sure it can be done but I haven't really done much in this area and don't know where to start.
>>TIA